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#205 RFC 2047 munged on send

mh-e-8.0
open
nobody
mime (37)
5
2018-09-22
2006-03-23
Bill Wohler
No

If you receive a message with RFC 2047 encodings
(message attached) and reply, the RFC 2047 encoding
appears in the To and Comments header fields, rather
than the decoded characters. For example:

| To: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=)

When this message is sent, the encoding is wrapped
within another RFC 2047 encoding, as follows:

| To: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam
=?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3Fiso-8859-1=3FQ=3FSj=3DF8gre?=
| =?us-ascii?Q?n=3F=3D?=)

I think there are two components to this problem.

1. Let's add a feature request to nmh/GNU mailutils so
that you see the decoded character in your reply and
the RFC 2047 encoding happens automatically in either
send or post. This is the user-friendly way to solve
this problem.

2. Because a user *can* perform RFC 2047 encodings in
his message, and we see that repl inserts them in the
header, mml-to-mime must be fixed to recognize RFC 2047
encodings that are already present and leave them
alone, rather than wrapping them in another RFC 2047
encoding as it does now.

Discussion

  • Bill Wohler

    Bill Wohler - 2006-03-23

    Message with RFC 2047 encoding

     
  • Bill Wohler

    Bill Wohler - 2006-06-22
    • status: open --> open-accepted
     
  • Bill Wohler

    Bill Wohler - 2013-02-23
    • labels: MIME --> mime
     
  • Bill Wohler

    Bill Wohler - 2013-02-23
    • Status: open-accepted --> open
     
  • Mike Kupfer

    Mike Kupfer - 2018-09-22

    See also #486

     

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